Tonight’s dinner: chilled (okay, lukewarm) corn and cauliflower soup with basil drizzle, quick pickled jalapeno and carrots, and fresh cannellini beans and a side of wilted kale with apple cider vinaigrette
Tag: what vegans eat
Lemony dill summer noodle bowl
We buy tofu from a local vendor at the farmers’ market, and they don’t last through the week. Today’s preparation is a simple one: pan-fried steaks (olive oil + pinch of salt in a cast iron skillet), sliced and arranged on top of the rest.
For the noodles I opted for soba. While the water boiled and the noodled cooked, I sauteed julienned zucchini and thinly sliced yellow bell pepper with olive oil, sliced garlic, and crushed red pepper. To that I added thinly chopped cooked collards (yesterday’s leftovers) and strips of lemon zest, then finished with dill when I mixed in the soba noodles.
Finished it off with a light twist on my favorite tahini sauce: juice of ½ a lemon, tablespoon or so of minced fresh dill, olive oil, tahini, a splash of hot sauce, a sprinkling of nutritional yeast, and water to whisk to the consistency I wanted (thin enough to pour, but thick enough to cling to the food).
Collard rolls with tofu and fresh salsa
Tonight’s dinner…
Baked tofu with a spicy ginger-sesame marinade (1 tbsp fresh grated ginger, several shakes crushed red pepper, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and a little bit of coconut nectar)
Mushrooms sauteed with red onions, ginger, crushed red pepper, a pinch of allspice, and fresh thyme, mixed with brown rice and stuffed into blanched whole collard leaves
Tomato-nectarine salsa with red onion and flowering cilantro (finished with a pinch of salt and a splash of white wine vinegar)
Thanksgiving prep is being documented over on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyca/
Our menu is non-traditional, as usual: Greek theme on Thanksgiving proper; Mexican-inspired the night before. Different guests for each (different sides of boyfriend’s family). My mom came down on Saturday to prep with me. It’s a blast.